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The Pretenders have today revealed their brand-new single Hate For Sale, following a radio premiere on Steve Lamacq’s BBC 6 Music show this afternoon. The single is the title track from the band’s new album, out July 17 via BMG. Pre-order the album here. Speaking about the track Chrissie Hynde said: “We all love punk, so I think it would be fair to...
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Due to the rapidly evolving situation with COVID-19, we will be postponing the 38thedition of Canadian Music Week 2020. The festival will now take place from September 8-13, with the conference remaining at the Sheraton Hotel from September 9-11. All badges and wristbands will be honoured on the new dates, and we look forward to returning in the fall of 2020. We...
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Today, the Headstones share a brand-new video for their latest single “Horses,” from their critically acclaimed full-length album PEOPLESKILLS. The video was shot at Ace And Sword Tattoo shop, which sees the band performing in-store while lead guitarist, Trent Carr, gets inked with a brand new tattoo. Watch the video here. PEOPLESKILLS, has earned them high praise from fans and critics alike with...
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Country music superstar Brett Kissel has earned a #1 single with “Drink About Me.” Featured on Brett’s new album “Now Or Never,” “Drink About Me” was the most played song this past week on Canada’s Nielsen BDS and Mediabase country radio charts. “Drink About Me” (download/stream) is the second song of Brett’s career to hit #1 at Canadian country radio...
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With “S.O.S. (Sawed Off Shotgun)” Officially Named Most Played Song At U.S. Rock Radio And Most Played Cancon Song At Canadian Rock Radio The Glorious Sons – Photo Credit Gavin Smith “Canada’s best export.” – Washington Times “The Canadian rockers continue to question the alleged impending doom of rock and roll over turbulent guitar licks and frantic drums and key. Maybe the...
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The Beaches Announce New Single “Want What You Got” Canadian Rockers To Join The Lightning Riders Tour. JUNO Award-winning rock band The Beaches announce their new single, “Want What You Got,” an energetically tongue-in-cheek celebration of coveting your neighbours and peers. “Want What You Got” is from their current EP, The Professional, released earlier this year. The track is at Canadian radio now and is...
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Scenic Route to Alaska – Give a Little – Artwork credit: Bryan Olson Edmonton-based indie-pop trio Scenic Route to Alaska have returned with the standout single “Give a Little”, listen + share HERE. The single is their first taste of new music before going back to work on their fifth full-length album due next year. The catchy new song has the band revisiting its...
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Tegan and Sara’s new album, Hey, I’m Just Like You, was released today by Sire. The album – which features new recordings of their very first songs, written between the ages of 15 and 17 – follows their first memoir, High School, which was published by Simon & Schuster (Canada) earlier this week. To celebrate, Tegan and Sara will perform...
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The Calgary Stampede may have come and gone, but fans of mainstream country music got to keep their cowboy boots out of the closet a little longer thanks to Country Thunder, the annual three-day music festival that kicked off on August 16, 2019, at Prairie Winds Park in Calgary. After stoically enduring one of the coldest evenings we’ve had this...
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Multiple JUNO and CCMA Award-winning artist Dallas Smith continues to make history and earns his 8th number one single with “Drop” today as the buoyant hook-filled track tops the Nielsen BDS and Mediabase Canadian Country Radio charts. Serving as the 7th consecutive chart-topper (3rd from his current EP, “The Fall”) as a solo artist, Smith firmly remains in uncharted territory with a record-breaking eight No. 1 singles to date....
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Today, Grammy-nominated, pop rock icon Avril Lavigne announces her first tour in 5 years. The 15-date North American “Head Above Water” tour will kick off on September 14 in Seattle, WA and will hit cities such as Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Boston and Toronto before concluding in Philadelphia, PA on October 11. The tour is in support of Avril’s critically acclaimed sixth studio...
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TORONTO, ON – Today, Canadian music icon Corey Hart joined MusiCounts, Canada’s leading music education charity, to surprise the students of Juniper Ridge Intermediate in Torbay, NL with a special performance, and $10,000 in new instruments from the MusiCounts Band Aid Program. Juniper Ridge Intermediate is one of 20 schools who received instruments this year, thanks to the generous support of Canada’s Great Kitchen Party....
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The Beaches guitarist Jordan Miller is in an ecstatic mood as she and bandmates (sister) Kylie Miller (vocalist), Eliza Enman-McDaniel (drums) and Leandra Earl (guitar/keyboards) wind down a U.S tour supporting Passion Pit by heading to a date in Michigan prior to a brief Ontario stop at Peterborough’s Venue theatre. The Toronto-based quartet had just learned they would be appearing...
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Win One Of 10 Personally Autographed Aldo Nova 2.0 CDs ~ Ten lucky Music Express readers will win one of 10 personally autographed CDs by Montreal superstar Aldo Nova~ To submit go to the Music Express online contest form and simply answer the skill-testing question – submit the contest form no later than Friday, June 7th 5 pm for your chance to...
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Thousands of music fans will gather this summer in Edenvale, Ontario, with views of the stunning Blue Mountain hills, 90 minutes north of Toronto and 10 minutes from Wasaga Beach for the first annual ROXODUS Festival – an epic four-day event running July 11-14, 2019. A once in a lifetime experience with a stellar line up of iconic artists, ROXODUS is...
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In his hometown of Burnaby, BC, Canada, Joe Keithley ran a campaign based on affordable housings for all, help for the disadvantaged, sustainability and grassroots democracy. Facing well-financed and vicious opponents, Keithley took a shoestring budget and his punk rock attitude and was elected as a city councillor. Burnaby is BC’s third biggest city and Canada’s most culturally diverse, 150 languages can...
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Following nearly a year in the studio, singer-songwriter and JUNO Award nominee for Breakthrough Artist of the Year Johnny Orlando releases his highly anticipated debut EP Teenage Fever today via Universal Music Canada/Island Records. Listen to Teenage Fever, HERE. Emanating confidence and charisma over danceable electronic grooves and a subtle hip-hop bounce, Orlando levels up his take on pop. Once again co-writing with his sister Darian...
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Concerts in Buenos Aires, Santiago, Sao Paulo Represent New Territories for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Duo LOS ANGELES, January 29, 2019 — Quickly putting their groundbreaking 2018 behind them, the world’s top-selling musical duo Daryl Hall and John Oates will continue to achieve career milestones in 2019 when they perform their first-ever concerts in Argentina, Chile and Brazil...
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Winnipeg’s Anthony Ducharme looks like Ozzy Osbourne sounds like Ozzy Osbourne and has even perfected Osbourne’s on-stage mannerisms. No, his wife isn’t called Sharon (it’s Lorraine) and he has (so far) deferred from biting into live bats but Ducharme’s Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne tribute band, Ozbourne is about as close as you can get to the original artist. Set to tour...
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Sass Jordan – Deals A Dose Of Rebel Moon Blues

By Keith Sharp The Sweet bassist Steve Priest passed away Thursday, June 4th leaving the four-member British glam band which chalked up 20 hit singles during the 1970s with just one surviving member, guitarist Andy Scott. Priest, age 72, who had recently been touring with his own Los Angeles-based version of The Sweet, died of unspecified causes although he had...